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+++ 25 January 2018. Centre staff Pierre Ibisch and Monika Hoffmann attend esri's Geodesign Summit at the company's headquarters in Redlands, California. In a meeting with esri founder and CEO
Jack Dangermond and his team they explored opportunities for future cooperation on roadless areas' conservation. esri is powering the first online interactive map of roadless areas on www.roadless.online +++

Jack Dangermond and his team with Centre staff at esri, Redlands (photo: Michael Gould)

+++ 24 January 2018. Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development organized another Sustainability Lecture the Secretary General of the Club of Rome, Graeme Maxton, who presented his report
'Reinventing Prosperity'. The Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management was in charge of a project that facilitated reading sessions of this book
during the last year and had also suggested to invite Maxton. Centre staff Angela Dichte is the coordinator of the project. In a panel discussion, moderated by Prof. Heike Walk, the book was also
discussed with Daniela Trochowski, Deputy Minister of Finance of Brandenburg, Sarah Bhandari, student of Global Change Management, and Pierre Ibisch +++

+++ 12-16 October 2017. 33 experts representing 12 European countries convened on the Isle of Vilm, in the Baltic Sea, to further develop the European Beech Forest Network. The meeting was held in
the course of a project funded by the German Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, and commissioned by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation. They
addressed the States Parties of the extended serial UNESCO World Heritage property “Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe (Albania, Austria, Belgium,
Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Germany, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain and Ukraine)” with a resolution that summarises important findings ...

Photo: Participants during excursion to the beech forests of Jasmund National Park (Matthias Schickhofer) +++

+++ 13-14 September 2017. In Brussels, members of the European Beech Forest Network attend the Conference for Protection of Old Growth Forest in Europe organized by Wild Europe and hosted by
the EU Committee of the Regions. On behalf of the Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management, as well as the European Beech Forest Network registered society, Pierre Ibisch and Marcus Waldherr
participate in the event. Photo:

The Centre has become member of the Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative and looks forward to fruitful cooperation. The conference was hosted and sponsored by Beijing Forestry
University. On the photo: venue of the conference, building of the Faculty of Landscape Architecture (P. Ibisch)+++

Pre-conference field trip to the border of Inner Mongolia, Sahinba National Forest Park, Hebei province, a large afforestation project for halting the desert and
sandstorms threatening the Beijing area (photo: P. Ibisch)

+++ 17 July 2017. Brandenburg State Forestry, German NABU, together with Göttingen University and Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, officially launched a joint project called
'Glassy forest enterprise'. The Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management, on behalf of Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, implements the ecological research component. The
goal is to understand the ecological impact of selected silvicultural measures and the economic implications in a study region in northern Brandenburg, comprising both areas owned by the State of
Brandenburg and the NABU foundation. The 6-year-project is funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) +++

World Heritage Committee on the day of deciding on European Beech Forests in Krakow (photo: P. Ibisch)

Final group picture after the anniversary symposium celebrating 10 years Global Change Management, M.Sc.. In the first row, Christoph Nowicki, coordinator and
co-designer of the programme, Pierre Ibisch, founding head of the study programme, and Martin Welp, head of the programme since winter term 2007 (photo: A. Valenzuela Jimenez)

+++ 30 June 2017. 10th anniversary of the international Master study programme Global Change Management at Eberswalde University for
Sustainable Development. Partners, lectureres, current and former students gathered to celebrate the achievements of the programme that was launched in the winter term 2006/2007. Prof. Dr. Ottmar
Edenhofer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research gave a keynote lecture. Four former students, Thais Mattos, Carina Zell, Eike Christansen and Sönke Kreft, provided insights in their current
work. Thomas Loster, MunichRe, and Christoph Bals, Germanwatch, offered their perspective on the programme. Pierre Ibisch and Martin Welp reported about the genesis and achievements of the programme
as well as future ideas +++

On 28 June 2017, Pierre Ibisch (right) was invited by Austria to participate in meeting with ambassadors to the UNESCO; in Paris, at the UNESCO headquarters, he
informed the participants about the screening process of European beech forests that proceeded the extension nomination of the World Heritage Property dedicated to postglacial beech
expansion

+++ 13 June 2017. The Russian critical scientists and activists Dr. Alexey Kozlov, Nikolai Petrov, and Gulya Sultanova were the guests at the latest Eberswalder Nachhaltigkeitsgesellschaft. In the discussion the current situation of Russian civil society, environmental policy and also the Ukraine conflict were analysed +++

+++ 12 June 2017. Pierre Ibisch and Angela Dichte, in Hamburg, received the certificate for Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE) for successfully participating in the
Germany-wide contest 'One university - one book'. Together with 9 universities, HNEE was selected by a jury, for coming up with a convincing proposal. In the framework of the initiative launched by
Deutscher Stifterverband and the German magazine Die ZEIT, HNEE, in a series of events, reads and discusses the latest report to the Club of Rome: Reinventing prosperity. The Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management has proposed the book, prepared the application, and now moderates the
process of reading the book (more info in German ...) +++

+++ June 2017. Writtle University College has promoted Peter Hobson, co-director of the Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management, to the position of a Professor for biodiversity conservation and sustainability +++

+++ 26 May - 3 June 2017. Annual student excursion to Ukraine in combination with study trip in the framework of project on Transboundary cooperation for ecosystem-based sustainable
development. A group of Centre lecturers and students from Eberswalde together with partners from Moldova and Romania visited western Ukraine. The host and organizer in Lviv was the Ukrainian National Forestry University (UNFU), being a a strategic partner. in the region for a couple of years. After staying in Lviv and exploring the
Roztochya Biosphere Reserve, the focus of the study trip was on the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve on the border to Romania, another
long-term partner of the Centre +++

Director of the Roztochya Nature Reserve together with Eberswalde students around an old linden tree (photo: P. Ibisch)

In Uholka, after a day-long hike through the largest intact European beech forest, part of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve and component of the serial UNESCO World
Heritage property 'Primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and ancient beech forests of Germany', the group, unexpectedly, met Vlado Vancura, European Wilderness Society. Vlado leads an ongoing mission of wilderness audit in Ukraine (photo: European Wilderness Society)

+++ 21-23 May 2017. Pierre Ibisch participates in the strategic meeting of the Advisory Council of the International Academy for Nature Conservation (INA) , Isle of
Vilm. The meeting was chaired by Trevor Sandwith and involved further external experts. "The Advisory Council consists
out of 15 members from universities and scientific institutions, national and international NGOs, development cooperation, conservation authorities as well as from the German parliament ..." read more +++